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Dr. Vo Presents at GeoDelft

Last week, the urban modeling group’s senior researcher, Dr. Anh-Vu Vo, traveled to the Netherlands to take part in GeoDelft. GeoDelft combined the ISPRS Technical Commission (TC) IV symposium, the 3D GeoInfo conference, the 3D Cadastres workshop, and the 3rd International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities. Dr. Vo delivered a talk on A 6-dimensional hilbert approach to index full waveform LiDAR data in a distributed computing environment at the ISPRS TCIV symposium. 

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“I had the pleasure to meet all the people working on the frontline of spatial data, urban data integration, and 3D data visualization in Europe,” said Dr. Vo, “to me personally, it was also a trip to catch up with many fellows in TU Delft’s Department of OTB (particularly in Prof. Peter van Oosterom and Prof. Sisi Zlatanova’s teams) whom I met and worked with during my 2-month visit to TU Delft 4 years ago. It was also great to see some of my PhD works in point cloud data management strategies under Prof. Laefer’s supervision is providing some insight and inspiration to some current PhD students in TU Delft.” 

Continued engagement with the international remote sensing and mapping community remains a key priority for NYU CUSP’s Urban Modeling Group; we look forward to the 2019 ISPRS TCIV symposium.

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Prof. Laefer Introduces ieSoSc Students to LiDAR Point Clouds

As a part of NYU Tandon’s Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Science of Smart Cities (ieSoSC) program for K-12 students, Prof. Debra Laefer introduced this summer’s cohort to the wide world of aerial laser scanning. In addition to receiving an introduction to laser scanning, the students also had the opportunity to work with real world laser scanning point clouds collected in Dublin, Ireland. Students also learned how to create video fly-throughs of the data using the open source software CloudCompare.

Prof. Laefer was delighted to have the opportunity to share her research with the next generation of emerging urban scientists and looks forward to continued collaboration with the ieSoSC program.

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Public Release of the World’s Densest Urban Laser Scanning Dataset

We are delighted to announce that our 2015 aerial laser scanning data are now freely and publicly available through NYU’s Spatial Data Repository.

From the press release:

“At over 300 points per square meter, this is more than 30 times denser than typical LiDAR data and is an order of magnitude denser than any other aerial LiDAR dataset. The dataset also includes the first ever urban scan with the fullwave form version of the data, as well as affiliated imagery and video. The unprecedented comprehensiveness of this multi-layered dataset enables new opportunities in exploration and modeling. It also sets a new standard for what can be collected and used by cities around the world”

To read more, check out the full release on the Center for Urban Science + Progress website.